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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.usaor.net!news From: Brian Hess <brian@usaor.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Allowing Telnet Access to Local Machines Only Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 10:48:48 -0500 Organization: USA OnRamp Lines: 18 Message-ID: <314056E0.35BE@usaor.net> References: <jeremy-0703961323330001@quantum.vcn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc29.usaor.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Jeremy Malli wrote: > > Anyone know of a way to disallow Telnet access outside of the local > domain. I've heard some stuff about a hosts.deny file, but can't find > anything about it in Practical UNIX Security, or in the man pages. In hosts.deny: telnetd: ALL In hosts.allow: telnetd: yourdomain.com This will disable everyone but people in your domain from being able to telnet into that machine. --brian